An Idea Pitch Event" is a new competition designed to showcase the innovation, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit in ...

Explore landmark American inventions from Eli Whitney’s cotton gin to the Wright brothers’ airplane and Jonas Salk’s polio ...

The Wright brothers made history on December 17, 1903, with the world's first successful powered airplane flight, which paved ...

After a mysterious and lengthy disappearance, the historic patent documents for the Wright Brothers' groundbreaking flying machine have finally resurfaced and are now at home in the National Archives ...

Orville and Wilbur Wright's original 1903 Flyer made history. But it took them another two years, among crashes and technical glitches, to create the first truly practical airplane. Orville Wright ...

Orville was the born engineer, Wilbur the visionary. The brothers' partnership started after a hockey accident seriously injured 18-year-old Wilbur, leaving him in a state of depression for nearly two ...

The world’s first flight officially took off from North Carolina’s Outer Banks on this day in history, Dec. 17, 1903. The Wright brothers were allegedly the first to successfully fly a powered and ...

The five people killed aboard a single-engine plane that crashed and caught fire at Wright Brothers National Memorial’s First Flight Airport in North Carolina over the weekend have been identified, ...